Theoretically i imagined if the boss wasn't deleted, for the first phase it would fire cannons at your cards every turn they got. Actually that sounds more like a theoretical second phase.
Fun fact: The boss skull belongs to Royal Dominguez. Grimora was going to give the pirate a boss fight, but instead he is only a gimmick fight in act two and a breif flash here.
i mean, after his battle in act 2, he did talk about wanting to be a boss, so Grimora could have been trying to grant his only wish, because both of them would die.
@@shreddedyeet True but Po3 had bosses which were different characters than the entities in the main games. If Magnificus did something similar it, could have been a really great chapter. Even seeing his student's before he maimed them could have been a worthwhile conflict.
Even though I somehow knew I wasn't in a hurry, the game still made me feel like I was, with the constant reminder of having the file deletion screen on the left. I just wanted to experience as much as possible and potentially breezed through the last part, but genuinely I wish the dev revisits both Grimora and Magnificus for a DLC.
The best thing about Grimora was that she tried, she tried deleting the game, but failed, she tried doing an epic bossfight, but failed. What counts is that she tried.
I hope the bones of this game will be used again. A game where you pick a DM for a run and need to make decks by different rules each time sound cool. And I just want to see how Grimmora and Magnificus DM
Grimora DM DLC and Magnificus DM DLC would be really cool, since we already have Leshy DM and P03 DM campaigns in the game, even if the Leshy campaign is kind of 'short' technically
I really am content with the ending - I am not however content with all the amazing potential going to waste and if it was a stand alone card game where you could face people and build a wonderful death card or maybe add even more scrybes man that would be truly amazing.
@@p3rf3ctxzer0 Or a part like act 2, but stretched out to a full game, but still utalizing the mechanics you see in the other acts like Sacrifices and Upgrades.
Given how the work, Magnificus would simply be terrible. He, as a scribe, only cares about visuals, not gameplay at all, that's why his cards don't match with any other deck properly, while energy, bones and blood sinergize well. So his game would probably be terrible as his deck is.
No it doesn't because we don't get a card with that sigil and I think, it was just a joke BUT I think that the "Haunted" sigil would be a useful one, because when a card with that sigil dies, the field it died on gets "Haunted" and when you place another card on the "Haunted" field, it's sigil gets replaced by the "Haunted" sigil. It would useful, because you could replace the brittle sigil. So maybe it was a unused sigil or maybe it's a hint for a dlc :0
I really like how Grimora was... Wrong. Her extreme reaction in an attempt to destroy the *old files* failed entirely. What she did... was for nothing. She tried to save carder, and ends up directly killing him, and in the process, killing everyone else as well. And I like that. I like how her theme of death being inevitable and being openly embracing of it backfired. Not because of a secret ploy, or some unexpected plot device, she was just... wrong. And everyone paid the price for it. I think that's honestly what keeps the ending from being bad for me. I strongly dislike it overall still as the game's *only* ending, but between the excellent writing and the masterful subversion of tropes, You just... can't be upset at it.
@@genkoti I mean, the video we got at the end of the ARG flat out confirms this: ruclips.net/video/e-FuQZ6hTS0/видео.html&ab_channel=KaminskiMfg. P03 succeeded in uploading the game. It makes sense, when you think about it. All Leshy did was remove his monitor, and, with the Scrybes other than P03 knowing nothing about technology, they just assumed that the monitor being removed meant P03 stopped working. However, I'm fairly certain that the Inscryption we play isn't the Inscryption that P03 uploaded. He states that, by uploading the game in the state it is at the time, he has ensured there will be countless copies of the game where he is in control. The fact that the version we play starts with Leshy in control implies we aren't playing P03's version.
"I'm fairly certain that the Inscryption we play isn't the Inscryption that P03 uploaded" - correct. We're not actually "playing" anything, we're watching footage of Luke playing. And that's not an online copy, it's the original one on floppy.
I do believe that every scrybe can summon the moon in one way or another. We mainly saw that Leshy could capture and play the moon, but Magnificus could also paint the moon into existence. In a sense every scrybe has this ability. I don’t know exactly how or why each one would summon the moon, but I think the significance of it hold weight along with the tarot cards the trader was speaking about. Upright, the moon represents fears, illusions, and anxiety. Often meant to signify that you’re actively avoiding or hiding away from the truth. It makes sense that Leshy would summon the moon during his boss fight cause he was scared of losing. He loved playing his card game, and he knows the other scrybes already have a way to revert back to the original game. If he lost then he had a chance to loose it all. Magnificus is a bit more tricky to pin down with the moon, but I believe he was trying to summon the moon to see if it could save the rest of the data. He foresaw everything, and his own demise along with it. Magnificus was afraid of the thought of being forgotten, so he actively ran from it. Hence why he didn’t have time to shake your hand at the end. I think it would be cool to see the other two summon the moon since it seemed like a vocal point during act two, but either way very good
I think grimora would use the moon with a few special cards, like werewolves or something like a blood moon and p03 would use it as something like a headlight hiding something or obscuring things by blinding you.
Leshy definitely didn't use it because he was afraid of losing, he wanted to make a wonderful card game with amazing story and atmosphere, and what's cooler and more badass than dropping the whole freaking MOON for the final boss?
@@SonicMaster519 “this blasted moon.” Quote from Leshy. If he wasn’t afraid of loosing then why would he care about the value of the moon? “Now this is true value.” Would imply that he is intending to make sure you don’t pass. Late game Leshy doesn’t care about actually winning. “We don’t need to keep score.” Is another time that he shows no cares for the actual rules of the game. He cared when he dropped the moon. Besides I think there’s more to the moon then people are actually thinking about.
@@dreemysweety I honestly think Leshy saw the moon only as a prop until he was cornered, not only in the fight but also in the experience, instead of repeating himself with just more cards he summoned a massive card that would stop strong hitters like Ouroboros and Mothman, bringing it forth not only as a final boss but also the most tense part of the game, making it both the most epic part of his campaign both in atmosphere and gameplay. Really shows how unpredictable Leshy is as a game master and his focus more on fun and challenge than rules themselves.
@@gustavogodoy9626 I absolutely agree. I was just trying to point out something that seems rather strange to me. Like, why specifically the moon? It made sense for Leshy, but it appears a lot in the game.
I loved the stink bug, she was so kind and helpful, and Gomorrah us the same way. She tried to help but her plan back fired. She was a kind and caring old women. And she was just trying to help Luke
I really like how Grimora was.. Right. She did precisely the right thing for precisely the right reasons: to end their suffering and bury the old_data. Every living soul in that game was enslaved at best and being actively tortured at worst. They were in a living hell. And although she couldn't wipe the old_data, she did destroy the possibility of another "great transcendence" dramatically reducing its mobility. She's a heroic antagonist, and was was nodding my head in agreement with her the whole time.
@@ArteMarie56 Yes, but I'm being earnest. I'm floored someone would come to the video to make a comment with my exact opposite sentiment. Maybe thats just the mark of a good game.
Screw it, I like feeding trolls. You're just plain wrong. And based on your like count, everyone knows it. The mycologist was perfectly happy and not enslaved. How about the kraken? Seemed perfectly fine. The bone lord seemed fine too. Sure, he SEEMED sinister but he never really wrongs us or anyone else. The bridge builder? And sure you can SAY Leshy's minions were enslaved, but they never seem to complain, besides maybe the wood carver. They seemed pretty happy. Mag's students were undergoing torture but there was hope for them. Leshy was a very noble soul. He did not deserve death. Grimora didn't even bother to ask. She did the WRONG thing, for questionable reasons at best. Her arrogance and stupidity killed Luke, and since P03 clearly survived, chances are the old data is still mobile.
@@richardashendale922 I have to agree. It didn’t seem to me like anyone was being tortured, besides maybe grimora who simply wanted to die after a long, seemingly endless life. Magnificus actively desired to keep things together, he was in utter despair when the game was being deleted. Only one of the scrybes wanted to go, that being grimora, and everyone else wanted to keep on going. Even if for selfish goals, the consciousness that the old_data had given to the characters did not want to be deleted.
@@richardashendale922 No. While some of them are comfortable at times, the game makes it clear this is not a way to live and that all of them are caught in a constant loop or pain and subjection. At the start of the game, even the Scrybes are suffering. Even if a few of them get by unscathed, like the wood carver, thats not an excuse for everything else. Kaycee didn't bury them in the forest, she buried them in a hellhole. Let me ask you. If you knew Hell was real, and millions of people were suffering for all eternity, and had a button that could make it disappear. Would you push it? I would. I would be morally compelled to. Also we have no idea why GameFuna killed Luke when they did. For all we know the GT triggered the hit, not the deletion. Also yes, P03 survived, but that wasn't her doing. That was the GTs doing. If she had achieved her plan, and deleted him earlier he wouldn't have escaped, and the OLD_DATA would have been lost. I think Kaycee had the best of intentions. I really do. But there no denying that her mercy caused so much suffering and let the OLD_DATA escape.
"An unsettling tomb. Names on pedestals. My own among them. How unnerving, but I pay homage to the dismantled computer. The grave then shifts... Hello, Grimoria. ... this is the end, is it? ... Well. Let's give it our best, shall we..? Before everything stops existing... forever. A glimpse of what could be slips through my fingers. Of an epic battle with a pirate from the past. Yet it is not meant to be. Though our time together was fleeting, we part with a solemn handshake."
Leshy: Story P03: Gameplay Magnificus: Presentation/Artistic Design. But what does that make Grimora? If Leshy crafts the story, P03 the mechanics, and Magnificus the art, what else is there for her to be? She did comment on having lost favor with her colleagues in act two. Perhaps this fourth wheel status contributed to that.
Personally, my lineup goes like this: Leshy: Worldbuilding/ atmosphere PO3: Mechanics Grimora: Story Magnificus: Aesthetics/Production Reasoning is as follows: Leshy's story is never exactly the strongpoint of his campaign, it's the atmosphere. when you think of the scrybe of beasts and what that means, beasts are the creatures populating a world that give it life. This is evidenced by Leshy's minions also being the game's most fleshed out NPCs, with most getting their own boss fight. When talking about Grimora, each life is a story with it's own beginning and end that she controls from start to finish. Of all the scrybes she most wants to move the actual plot forward rather than allow Inscryption to be an unending power struggle. The process of reaching her is also built upon assembling the stories of her three minions. PO3 is probably the clearest of the four, especially evidenced by how he talks. He is the main scrybe to openly care about the stats and quality of cards as well as gameplay mechanics. Magnificus is a bit of a tough one, but his theme of magic definitely feels like it's representing bringing all the parts together and executing them. The main evidence that I'm using for this is the fact that his 3D arena, even after much of it has been deleted, is by far the furthest ahead in graphics and presentation. By comparison, all the other scrybes' playmats kind of feel like playtesting prototypes. His students are a metaphor for ideas seeking to be brought to life but put on the eternal production backburner, and he puts everything through a brutal gauntlet of tests and trials before it reaches his canvas. In combat, magnificus alters cards to suit his own artistic vision and barely allows you to play with any strategy other than what works with what he wants and believes is suitable for final production. Anyway, thanks for listening to my Ted talk
@@angeldoyle859 Yanno, good point. And nice note on Magnificus' pupils being on the backburner and Leshy's being the most fleshed out-pretty neat touches there that most might not notice.
@@angeldoyle859 I love how you think, and I was almost convinced to agree, but sadly I realized, aside from writing about how and when everything dies, Grimora doesn't really seem to show much interest in story writing. If she actually expressed an interest in eulogies it would be different. But that doesn't seem to be her thing.
She thought she could save Luke by deleting the game. When in reality it inly progressed his death millions of times faster. If she just let him end the game by playing all DMs minus P03, he wouldve stopped abd been like "ok thats done ig"
I don't think he would have stopped altogether., Luke is far too curious for his own good, the woodcarver said it best, herself, "You will not heed this warning." Luke will want to see the OLD_DATA for as long as he is aware of its existence.
Magnificus also knew this: "why not simply eject the disk ,Luke? spare me and whatever is left? Ah, but i have foreseen it . you do not eject the disk. you have to know what comes next. And you're doomed for your insistence on it. so let us dance. for we shall both be meeting our makers soon."
The ending is tragic, but nothing's more tragic than the fact that we might never get a full version of the pirate boss theme. At least until someone makes a fleshed out Grimora act. Wouldn't really make sense in-lore, but it would be fun.
Did anyone else look at the rulebook because they had terrible memory? I really wanna see a card that lets me buff it to a 13/6 or something just by me plugging in my mic.
Not sure how I'm supposed to dump a giant paragraph anywhere besides notepad which is lame so don't mind me. This is my take on how Grimora's act should have gone, beware giant block of text below: Bone decks are horrible in Inscryption act II (except for grinding.) Bone decks are slow- the slowest in the game by far, a gravedigger is virtually required to win which can't be placed until turn 2 without a hammer. Even gravediggers are slow, making their cost up after its first turn and enabling a 1-1 unit in two turns after that. That's kinda... not fun to play. Act II of Inscryption made bone decks a little bit viable with the Bone Lord's secret (spoilers ahead). +3 starting bones and an extremely efficient bone producer card is a raw carry in an actual bone deck. However, said efficient card requires energy, as well as an active ability, which doesn't make sense for Grimora's act. As such, this is my ultimate solution: Boons, from Leshy's act. In Leshy's act, many boons were useless, but in the context of a Grimora type bone deck, the more useless ones would be incredible. A boon could be chosen at the start of the act and replaced with another boon at the end of each segment. *WALL OF TREES (all player tiles start with 0/6 flyblock trees)*: Acts as early game defense (biggest weakness of a bone deck), as well as 4 potential free bones. *BONE LORD (+8 bones)* : 8 free bones is pretty obviously good in a bone deck *AMBIDEXTROUS (+1 card draw)*: Previously one of the most useful boons, still good utility wise in a bone deck, but lacks early game support *MAGPIE'S EYE (draw whatever card you want)*: Also previously one of the most useful boons, a little different than ambidextrous but is still mostly the same in strength and weakness. *GOAT'S BLOOD (1 black goat starts on field)*: Technically useless in a bone deck. However, discerning players may remember that the Black Goat is a worthy sacrifice to the bone lord... [To those who think it's uncharacteristic for Grimora to use boons, I say: It's uncharacteristic Leshy uses bones. Besides, most of these are still a little thematically appropriate.] Like how Leshy uses two different types of currency, and how P03 has 5 lanes instead of 4, Grimora will tamper with a fundamental mechanic. Health. Health lost by the scales will be permanent, and the player will have only one life (in contrast to PO3's infinite lives and Leshy's 2-3 lives.) If the players health ever drops too a new low, the player will start their next battle with that amount of health. Health can regained up to base health on the scale through my next concept: Permanent sacrifices. The player should be forced to sacrifice cards to the Bone Lord every time before taking a new card. This concept makes the ambidextrous boon scarier, due to running out of cards quicker in combination with having less total cards. One card would give only one life, or 2 depending on rarity. However, health could be sacrificed to choose all 3 cards instead of 1 when getting a new card at any time- which could be abused because you could sacrifice both extra cards for a total of 2 health instead of 1 (though you have to enter a battle with those useless cards and less health.) Boons can also be sacrificed- though they can become replenished for free at the end of each segment. At any point while sacrificing to the Bone Lord, the player can sacrifice their boon for a rare card- the only way to get rare cards in this act (because lets face it bone mound op). The only exceptions to obtaining a rare card would be the BONE LORD boon, which is unsacrificable, and GOAT'S BLOOD, which would always give a similar card to Bone Lord's Horn (though only once per run.) The Boon can also be sacrificed instead of a card, allowing the player to come out with 2 cards instead of -1 from the Bone Lord. Deaths will be incredibly punishing. Instead of giving the player an easier time after every death like how Leshy did it, Grimora's act will permanently lower player health after every death until the player starts the game dead, where the player would then actually die, setting the counter back to -4; permanently changing a starting card into a corpse (like that of act 2), making them impossible to sacrifice and making them a 0/1. One really crazy thing that needs to be implemented is for the player to be able to sacrifice themself to the bone lord at any time, adding a corpse card and forever setting the counter to -4 forever. The payoff would be an easy win for the next Grimora challenger (next run) by providing them with a special boon, which is probably super overpowered. The act will play out in 4 different segments, one for each of Grimora's skeletons and one for Grimora. Any of these acts can be chosen at any time, except for Grimora's act, which must be unlocked. Each area will also apply a mechanical rule that drains the player. Kaycee Hobbes's area will reduce the damage of every card on the board at the end of each game for the run. Sawyer Petal's area will have units that deal +1 damage when not hitting a unit. Royal Dominguez's area will make it so that whenever one of your units take damage, they will obtain the fragile sigil until the end of the run. Grimora's area will burst you down instead of weakening you, doing nothing other than providing difficult fights. But what about upgrading cards, and other outside-combat events? Due to how brutal this act is so far, outside events will allow for overpowered card crafting, similar to the first and third acts. Adding sigils to cards will only be done through money, being buyable similar to PO3's act. After buying an item that costs maybe 5 moneys on the checkerboard, the player can turn a card into a corpse, while making them cost 0 and giving their sigils to something else. Units like the Headless Horseman will benefit greatly from becoming a corpse, but tend to have garbage sigils to give. This will be the only overpowered card gaining system, because it does two overpowered things while usually doing nothing negative. But to those who spent 8 hours reading this mess may ask, "why? why did you make so many permanent and horrible consequences to complicated things you might forget about in gameplay?" Grimora has always been about death and accepting horrible things. By making this the most unforgiving act, a first-time player is more than likely to make at least one devastatingly huge missplay. Many players may even die enough to make all their starting cards into corpses. By doing this, they are literally forced to... kill themselves, maybe multiple times, within the game, to obtain enough power to win. This act is also designed to be the most frustrating and difficult (though at high reward to those who can beat it), because it's the darkest part of the game. While still beatable by all players, it requires a difficult decision to do so if you fall low enough- the emotional decision of killing off yourself (though some personalities have no problem with that if it's a free win)
very cool concepts, i feel like it could be neat for the stories of each card to matter in some way. like, provide all the elements necessary to make them follow the hero's journey, be weakened, then become stronger to overcome the obstacle, or inevitably die. maybe cards should keep their health between games, but be able to be healed? maybe interactions between cards that affect the game?
I hope they do a dlc or mod for Grimora at some point like they did for Kaycees mod giving you unlimited Leshy. The gameplay in Grimora's last fight is fun and the visuals are amazing.
На самом деле, эта музыка похожа на ту, которую обычно можно услышать в каких-то хоррор фильмах или играх. Мне нравится, думаю, Гриморе как никому другому подходит эта атмосфера. Кстати, Гримора по сути самая благоразумная из всех переписчиков, это её решение в конце, уничтожить игру вместе со старыми данными... Мне кажется, оно ей самой далось не так легко, но она понимала, что так будет лучше всем. Она не хотела этого, понимала, что другие её не поймут, но она знала, что нет другого варианта обезопасить мир от этих чудовищных знаний, и вместе с тем прекратить страдания всех персонажей в игре. Жаль только, что из-за глупости Люка Картера ничего из этого не вышло. Надеюсь, мне не одной кажется, что он полный кретин.
I really wanted more time with Grimora and Magnificus. Felt like a waste to have unique playboards only used for a fraction of the games time. Wish we had the option of choosing the themes.
The very first notes of the song sound like the starting notes to Victors solo from the movie the corpse bride... and Grimora is the scripe of death and uses skeletons..... coincidence or.... ☠️🦴👰♀
Eh. She tried. Maybe it wasn't the right thing to do. But it was maybe the best thing that could've been done. If it wasn't for the old underscore data being embedded so deep inside the floppy I guess even scribes can be wrong
you know what's strange? We hear the same familiar melody from deathcard cabin in both the four scrybes and botopia. so why not here in grimora's crypt? i mean, this may just be because jonah senzel forgot that the melody existed, but this is inscryption. so what does it mean? (and no im not counting final duel as when magnificus is in control we only get to have a battle, not explore any sort of map)
The theme from deathcard cabin represents Leshy's area, it plays in botopia when you visit the top right area because that's supposed to be Leshy's area. It's not in "the four scrybes" Why would it be here if it has nothing to do with Leshy?
@@Infamous_Val_05 my brother. i advise u to listen to "the four scrybes" for a bit bc idk if u havent reached the bit it is there at or if u just dont hear it.
@@fiendishstrawberryva well, if it is it makes sense, because the track is called "the four Scrybes", and Leshy is a Scrybe. I still fail to see how Leshy's theme is supposed to play here according to you though...
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the dissapointment you feel when it just.. deletes the skull right before the boss battle here can start
Yeah....
Especially when cannons pop, the mask is suddenly brought to her face and the music starts to kick shit up.
Justice for Grimora!
YARRRR HAR HA-
*Mask gets deleted*
yeah
Theoretically i imagined if the boss wasn't deleted, for the first phase it would fire cannons at your cards every turn they got.
Actually that sounds more like a theoretical second phase.
If it's any consolation, the boss fight looked like a real showstopper. Shame we had to settle on a simple handshake.
"... Yar? Could it be..?"
>Kaycee's mod now has pirate boss.
"AVAST YE!" *pirate music plays*
Fun fact: The boss skull belongs to Royal Dominguez. Grimora was going to give the pirate a boss fight, but instead he is only a gimmick fight in act two and a breif flash here.
Pretty sure the three skeletons you fight in grimora’s crypt would be the bosses, but unfortunately there was no grimora chapter. Sad.
i mean, after his battle in act 2, he did talk about wanting to be a boss, so Grimora could have been trying to grant his only wish, because both of them would die.
@@ArteMarie56 Kaycee being a boss would be a bit odd.
@@ArteMarie56 I'm clueless to what would Kaycee Hobbes' bossfight look like.
@@yvaskhmir I'd like to think he would see your cards as dogs, giving them the guard ability. kind of weird but would be a fitting act 1 boss
grimora has to be the most polite one out of the four scribes, i wish i could play a full version of her and magnificus' games
Indeed Magnificus had some really cool visuals, and if he had all original boss characters I'd be totally up for that.
@@fictiontheorizer4253 considering his underlings and how he treated them, I imagine his bosses might not be great.
@@shreddedyeet True but Po3 had bosses which were different characters than the entities in the main games.
If Magnificus did something similar it, could have been a really great chapter.
Even seeing his student's before he maimed them could have been a worthwhile conflict.
@@fictiontheorizer4253 any of his students he considered worthy, he made them a card, so maybe we could see master grue or something
Ikr I mean who wouldnt want to play yu gi oh with a Christmas tree
I want a DLC for Grimoria and Magnificus!!!!
Very same!!
Yeah.
Or just game based on gameplay of Inscription. Like, no story just: pick your DM and game, adjust to their deck building and try different runs
I want an endless mode for chapter one.
@@masterzoroark6664 I like this fellows idea better then mine
Yes!!!
Even though I somehow knew I wasn't in a hurry, the game still made me feel like I was, with the constant reminder of having the file deletion screen on the left. I just wanted to experience as much as possible and potentially breezed through the last part, but genuinely I wish the dev revisits both Grimora and Magnificus for a DLC.
the game continues after a certain point has reached, so you could wait how much you want to do whatever in the lastt chapter
There is mods to add them.
The best thing about Grimora was that she tried, she tried deleting the game, but failed, she tried doing an epic bossfight, but failed. What counts is that she tried.
Faile- OHHHH
Yeah... She failed at deleting the game...
I hope the bones of this game will be used again.
A game where you pick a DM for a run and need to make decks by different rules each time sound cool.
And I just want to see how Grimmora and Magnificus DM
Grimora DM DLC and Magnificus DM DLC would be really cool, since we already have Leshy DM and P03 DM campaigns in the game, even if the Leshy campaign is kind of 'short' technically
I really am content with the ending - I am not however content with all the amazing potential going to waste and if it was a stand alone card game where you could face people and build a wonderful death card or maybe add even more scrybes man that would be truly amazing.
@@p3rf3ctxzer0 Or a part like act 2, but stretched out to a full game, but still utalizing the mechanics you see in the other acts like Sacrifices and Upgrades.
I think they would be interesting, but I feel that Magic suit is a little broken
Given how the work, Magnificus would simply be terrible. He, as a scribe, only cares about visuals, not gameplay at all, that's why his cards don't match with any other deck properly, while energy, bones and blood sinergize well. So his game would probably be terrible as his deck is.
yeah i kinda wish there was leshy grade development for all four instead of just two
Death *is* her specialty, after all.
Death does run in the family tree
@@PowerPointGaming the only tree she’s of is where I hide my bodies
I wonder if that sigil in the rulebook actually works. The one where you speak into a connected microphone and it increases the power of the card
No it doesn't because we don't get a card with that sigil and I think, it was just a joke BUT I think that the "Haunted" sigil would be a useful one, because when a card with that sigil dies, the field it died on gets "Haunted" and when you place another card on the "Haunted" field, it's sigil gets replaced by the "Haunted" sigil. It would useful, because you could replace the brittle sigil.
So maybe it was a unused sigil or maybe it's a hint for a dlc :0
@@DeltonBurrow i wonder if it could also carry over any other sigils the original card had
@@DeltonBurrow i mean for magnificus there was an vr headset thingy
INSCRYPTION VR CONFIRMED???
There was no time left... There just was no time left...
I really liked the chess-like movement in this segment, it could have been a very interesting mechanic if it were expanded upon in its own act.
I really like how calm and slow this theme is in contrast to your time running out quickly.
I really like how Grimora was... Wrong. Her extreme reaction in an attempt to destroy the *old files* failed entirely. What she did... was for nothing.
She tried to save carder, and ends up directly killing him, and in the process, killing everyone else as well.
And I like that. I like how her theme of death being inevitable and being openly embracing of it backfired. Not because of a secret ploy, or some unexpected plot device, she was just... wrong. And everyone paid the price for it.
I think that's honestly what keeps the ending from being bad for me. I strongly dislike it overall still as the game's *only* ending, but between the excellent writing and the masterful subversion of tropes, You just... can't be upset at it.
Hm, I never thought of it that way. The ending being unsatisfying WAS the point. And it leaves a large impact.
Weirdly enough, if the game itself could be seen as proof. . . P03 won. The game was technically uploaded since we are all playing it.
@@genkoti I mean, the video we got at the end of the ARG flat out confirms this: ruclips.net/video/e-FuQZ6hTS0/видео.html&ab_channel=KaminskiMfg.
P03 succeeded in uploading the game. It makes sense, when you think about it. All Leshy did was remove his monitor, and, with the Scrybes other than P03 knowing nothing about technology, they just assumed that the monitor being removed meant P03 stopped working.
However, I'm fairly certain that the Inscryption we play isn't the Inscryption that P03 uploaded. He states that, by uploading the game in the state it is at the time, he has ensured there will be countless copies of the game where he is in control. The fact that the version we play starts with Leshy in control implies we aren't playing P03's version.
"I'm fairly certain that the Inscryption we play isn't the Inscryption that P03 uploaded" - correct. We're not actually "playing" anything, we're watching footage of Luke playing. And that's not an online copy, it's the original one on floppy.
@leland_C then I guess no online versus mode then......
I do believe that every scrybe can summon the moon in one way or another. We mainly saw that Leshy could capture and play the moon, but Magnificus could also paint the moon into existence. In a sense every scrybe has this ability. I don’t know exactly how or why each one would summon the moon, but I think the significance of it hold weight along with the tarot cards the trader was speaking about. Upright, the moon represents fears, illusions, and anxiety. Often meant to signify that you’re actively avoiding or hiding away from the truth.
It makes sense that Leshy would summon the moon during his boss fight cause he was scared of losing. He loved playing his card game, and he knows the other scrybes already have a way to revert back to the original game. If he lost then he had a chance to loose it all.
Magnificus is a bit more tricky to pin down with the moon, but I believe he was trying to summon the moon to see if it could save the rest of the data. He foresaw everything, and his own demise along with it. Magnificus was afraid of the thought of being forgotten, so he actively ran from it. Hence why he didn’t have time to shake your hand at the end. I think it would be cool to see the other two summon the moon since it seemed like a vocal point during act two, but either way very good
I think grimora would use the moon with a few special cards, like werewolves or something like a blood moon
and p03 would use it as something like a headlight hiding something or obscuring things by blinding you.
Leshy definitely didn't use it because he was afraid of losing, he wanted to make a wonderful card game with amazing story and atmosphere, and what's cooler and more badass than dropping the whole freaking MOON for the final boss?
@@SonicMaster519 “this blasted moon.” Quote from Leshy. If he wasn’t afraid of loosing then why would he care about the value of the moon? “Now this is true value.” Would imply that he is intending to make sure you don’t pass. Late game Leshy doesn’t care about actually winning. “We don’t need to keep score.” Is another time that he shows no cares for the actual rules of the game. He cared when he dropped the moon. Besides I think there’s more to the moon then people are actually thinking about.
@@dreemysweety I honestly think Leshy saw the moon only as a prop until he was cornered, not only in the fight but also in the experience, instead of repeating himself with just more cards he summoned a massive card that would stop strong hitters like Ouroboros and Mothman, bringing it forth not only as a final boss but also the most tense part of the game, making it both the most epic part of his campaign both in atmosphere and gameplay.
Really shows how unpredictable Leshy is as a game master and his focus more on fun and challenge than rules themselves.
@@gustavogodoy9626 I absolutely agree. I was just trying to point out something that seems rather strange to me. Like, why specifically the moon? It made sense for Leshy, but it appears a lot in the game.
Now I know if I were to DM a game of dnd I'd want to at least include a card mechanic based off of inscryption.
Increase immersion by actually playing cards with your players
DnD isn't the only ttrpg out there, I'm sure there's a game more like Inscryption somewhere.
@@Reginald_Ritmo I mean we already play Uno during the breaks in the campaign I'm in, does that count?
@@Reginald_Ritmo increase immersion by encouraging them to remove their teeth and eyes to tip the scales
Give me cards over dice any day.
I loved the stink bug, she was so kind and helpful, and Gomorrah us the same way. She tried to help but her plan back fired. She was a kind and caring old women. And she was just trying to help Luke
I really like how Grimora was.. Right. She did precisely the right thing for precisely the right reasons: to end their suffering and bury the old_data. Every living soul in that game was enslaved at best and being actively tortured at worst. They were in a living hell. And although she couldn't wipe the old_data, she did destroy the possibility of another "great transcendence" dramatically reducing its mobility.
She's a heroic antagonist, and was was nodding my head in agreement with her the whole time.
Is this comment purposely contrasting the “grimora was wrong” comment
@@ArteMarie56 Yes, but I'm being earnest. I'm floored someone would come to the video to make a comment with my exact opposite sentiment. Maybe thats just the mark of a good game.
Screw it, I like feeding trolls.
You're just plain wrong. And based on your like count, everyone knows it. The mycologist was perfectly happy and not enslaved. How about the kraken? Seemed perfectly fine. The bone lord seemed fine too. Sure, he SEEMED sinister but he never really wrongs us or anyone else. The bridge builder? And sure you can SAY Leshy's minions were enslaved, but they never seem to complain, besides maybe the wood carver. They seemed pretty happy. Mag's students were undergoing torture but there was hope for them. Leshy was a very noble soul. He did not deserve death.
Grimora didn't even bother to ask. She did the WRONG thing, for questionable reasons at best. Her arrogance and stupidity killed Luke, and since P03 clearly survived, chances are the old data is still mobile.
@@richardashendale922 I have to agree. It didn’t seem to me like anyone was being tortured, besides maybe grimora who simply wanted to die after a long, seemingly endless life. Magnificus actively desired to keep things together, he was in utter despair when the game was being deleted. Only one of the scrybes wanted to go, that being grimora, and everyone else wanted to keep on going. Even if for selfish goals, the consciousness that the old_data had given to the characters did not want to be deleted.
@@richardashendale922
No. While some of them are comfortable at times, the game makes it clear this is not a way to live and that all of them are caught in a constant loop or pain and subjection. At the start of the game, even the Scrybes are suffering. Even if a few of them get by unscathed, like the wood carver, thats not an excuse for everything else.
Kaycee didn't bury them in the forest, she buried them in a hellhole.
Let me ask you. If you knew Hell was real, and millions of people were suffering for all eternity, and had a button that could make it disappear. Would you push it?
I would. I would be morally compelled to.
Also we have no idea why GameFuna killed Luke when they did. For all we know the GT triggered the hit, not the deletion.
Also yes, P03 survived, but that wasn't her doing. That was the GTs doing. If she had achieved her plan, and deleted him earlier he wouldn't have escaped, and the OLD_DATA would have been lost.
I think Kaycee had the best of intentions. I really do. But there no denying that her mercy caused so much suffering and let the OLD_DATA escape.
I wanted to battle the Pirate boss T_T the music sounded amazing
Thank goodness for Kaycee’s mod
@@pugsriel Wait, he's in there? I tested out the beta but haven't had time to go back to it :O
@@NerdySatyr Royal is the final boss after all 12 challenge levels
@@pugsriel Amazing!
"An unsettling tomb. Names on pedestals. My own among them. How unnerving, but I pay homage to the dismantled computer. The grave then shifts...
Hello, Grimoria. ... this is the end, is it? ... Well. Let's give it our best, shall we..? Before everything stops existing... forever.
A glimpse of what could be slips through my fingers. Of an epic battle with a pirate from the past. Yet it is not meant to be. Though our time together was fleeting, we part with a solemn handshake."
Marvelous tho you missed one
@@ren_8181 that I did, but I rectified that issue recently:)
Can't believe Grimora deleted everything and pulled an "It's what my character would do"
that's not what happened at all but ok
Luke's name being on one of the epithet fragments was foreshadowing
Leshy: Story
P03: Gameplay
Magnificus: Presentation/Artistic Design.
But what does that make Grimora? If Leshy crafts the story, P03 the mechanics, and Magnificus the art, what else is there for her to be?
She did comment on having lost favor with her colleagues in act two. Perhaps this fourth wheel status contributed to that.
Personally, my lineup goes like this:
Leshy: Worldbuilding/ atmosphere
PO3: Mechanics
Grimora: Story
Magnificus: Aesthetics/Production
Reasoning is as follows:
Leshy's story is never exactly the strongpoint of his campaign, it's the atmosphere. when you think of the scrybe of beasts and what that means, beasts are the creatures populating a world that give it life. This is evidenced by Leshy's minions also being the game's most fleshed out NPCs, with most getting their own boss fight.
When talking about Grimora, each life is a story with it's own beginning and end that she controls from start to finish. Of all the scrybes she most wants to move the actual plot forward rather than allow Inscryption to be an unending power struggle. The process of reaching her is also built upon assembling the stories of her three minions.
PO3 is probably the clearest of the four, especially evidenced by how he talks. He is the main scrybe to openly care about the stats and quality of cards as well as gameplay mechanics.
Magnificus is a bit of a tough one, but his theme of magic definitely feels like it's representing bringing all the parts together and executing them. The main evidence that I'm using for this is the fact that his 3D arena, even after much of it has been deleted, is by far the furthest ahead in graphics and presentation. By comparison, all the other scrybes' playmats kind of feel like playtesting prototypes. His students are a metaphor for ideas seeking to be brought to life but put on the eternal production backburner, and he puts everything through a brutal gauntlet of tests and trials before it reaches his canvas. In combat, magnificus alters cards to suit his own artistic vision and barely allows you to play with any strategy other than what works with what he wants and believes is suitable for final production.
Anyway, thanks for listening to my Ted talk
@@angeldoyle859 Yanno, good point. And nice note on Magnificus' pupils being on the backburner and Leshy's being the most fleshed out-pretty neat touches there that most might not notice.
Grimora: Escapism
My take is that Grimora is the end. Both in her mechanics and the story beat, she is the ending of the game
@@angeldoyle859 I love how you think, and I was almost convinced to agree, but sadly I realized, aside from writing about how and when everything dies, Grimora doesn't really seem to show much interest in story writing. If she actually expressed an interest in eulogies it would be different. But that doesn't seem to be her thing.
i really like the fact, that this is the remake from the retro version in act 2
She thought she could save Luke by deleting the game. When in reality it inly progressed his death millions of times faster. If she just let him end the game by playing all DMs minus P03, he wouldve stopped abd been like "ok thats done ig"
I don't think he would have stopped altogether., Luke is far too curious for his own good, the woodcarver said it best, herself, "You will not heed this warning." Luke will want to see the OLD_DATA for as long as he is aware of its existence.
Magnificus also knew this:
"why not simply eject the disk ,Luke?
spare me and whatever is left?
Ah, but i have foreseen it .
you do not eject the disk.
you have to know what comes next.
And you're doomed for your insistence on it.
so let us dance.
for we shall both be meeting our makers soon."
"This game was built on the ashes of another..."
The ending is tragic, but nothing's more tragic than the fact that we might never get a full version of the pirate boss theme.
At least until someone makes a fleshed out Grimora act. Wouldn't really make sense in-lore, but it would be fun.
We now have the Pirate Boss, and two themes for it even.
Never say never.
I wish that Ghost Pirate fight could've been a real thing...
:)
Check Kaycee's mod
🎵But then Kaycee came and made it 🎵
that's very calming
Did anyone else look at the rulebook because they had terrible memory? I really wanna see a card that lets me buff it to a 13/6 or something just by me plugging in my mic.
Grimora be like: We do a small amount of genociding.
I seriously thought this was a cutscene and sat there for 15 minutes straight.
Not sure how I'm supposed to dump a giant paragraph anywhere besides notepad which is lame so don't mind me.
This is my take on how Grimora's act should have gone, beware giant block of text below:
Bone decks are horrible in Inscryption act II (except for grinding.) Bone decks are slow- the slowest in the game by far, a gravedigger is virtually required to win which can't be placed until turn 2 without a hammer. Even gravediggers are slow, making their cost up after its first turn and enabling a 1-1 unit in two turns after that. That's kinda... not fun to play.
Act II of Inscryption made bone decks a little bit viable with the Bone Lord's secret (spoilers ahead). +3 starting bones and an extremely efficient bone producer card is a raw carry in an actual bone deck. However, said efficient card requires energy, as well as an active ability, which doesn't make sense for Grimora's act. As such, this is my ultimate solution:
Boons, from Leshy's act. In Leshy's act, many boons were useless, but in the context of a Grimora type bone deck, the more useless ones would be incredible. A boon could be chosen at the start of the act and replaced with another boon at the end of each segment.
*WALL OF TREES (all player tiles start with 0/6 flyblock trees)*: Acts as early game defense (biggest weakness of a bone deck), as well as 4 potential free bones.
*BONE LORD (+8 bones)* : 8 free bones is pretty obviously good in a bone deck
*AMBIDEXTROUS (+1 card draw)*: Previously one of the most useful boons, still good utility wise in a bone deck, but lacks early game support
*MAGPIE'S EYE (draw whatever card you want)*: Also previously one of the most useful boons, a little different than ambidextrous but is still mostly the same in strength and weakness.
*GOAT'S BLOOD (1 black goat starts on field)*: Technically useless in a bone deck. However, discerning players may remember that the Black Goat is a worthy sacrifice to the bone lord...
[To those who think it's uncharacteristic for Grimora to use boons, I say: It's uncharacteristic Leshy uses bones. Besides, most of these are still a little thematically appropriate.]
Like how Leshy uses two different types of currency, and how P03 has 5 lanes instead of 4, Grimora will tamper with a fundamental mechanic. Health. Health lost by the scales will be permanent, and the player will have only one life (in contrast to PO3's infinite lives and Leshy's 2-3 lives.) If the players health ever drops too a new low, the player will start their next battle with that amount of health. Health can regained up to base health on the scale through my next concept:
Permanent sacrifices. The player should be forced to sacrifice cards to the Bone Lord every time before taking a new card. This concept makes the ambidextrous boon scarier, due to running out of cards quicker in combination with having less total cards. One card would give only one life, or 2 depending on rarity. However, health could be sacrificed to choose all 3 cards instead of 1 when getting a new card at any time- which could be abused because you could sacrifice both extra cards for a total of 2 health instead of 1 (though you have to enter a battle with those useless cards and less health.)
Boons can also be sacrificed- though they can become replenished for free at the end of each segment. At any point while sacrificing to the Bone Lord, the player can sacrifice their boon for a rare card- the only way to get rare cards in this act (because lets face it bone mound op). The only exceptions to obtaining a rare card would be the BONE LORD boon, which is unsacrificable, and GOAT'S BLOOD, which would always give a similar card to Bone Lord's Horn (though only once per run.) The Boon can also be sacrificed instead of a card, allowing the player to come out with 2 cards instead of -1 from the Bone Lord.
Deaths will be incredibly punishing. Instead of giving the player an easier time after every death like how Leshy did it, Grimora's act will permanently lower player health after every death until the player starts the game dead, where the player would then actually die, setting the counter back to -4; permanently changing a starting card into a corpse (like that of act 2), making them impossible to sacrifice and making them a 0/1. One really crazy thing that needs to be implemented is for the player to be able to sacrifice themself to the bone lord at any time, adding a corpse card and forever setting the counter to -4 forever. The payoff would be an easy win for the next Grimora challenger (next run) by providing them with a special boon, which is probably super overpowered.
The act will play out in 4 different segments, one for each of Grimora's skeletons and one for Grimora. Any of these acts can be chosen at any time, except for Grimora's act, which must be unlocked. Each area will also apply a mechanical rule that drains the player. Kaycee Hobbes's area will reduce the damage of every card on the board at the end of each game for the run. Sawyer Petal's area will have units that deal +1 damage when not hitting a unit. Royal Dominguez's area will make it so that whenever one of your units take damage, they will obtain the fragile sigil until the end of the run. Grimora's area will burst you down instead of weakening you, doing nothing other than providing difficult fights.
But what about upgrading cards, and other outside-combat events? Due to how brutal this act is so far, outside events will allow for overpowered card crafting, similar to the first and third acts. Adding sigils to cards will only be done through money, being buyable similar to PO3's act. After buying an item that costs maybe 5 moneys on the checkerboard, the player can turn a card into a corpse, while making them cost 0 and giving their sigils to something else. Units like the Headless Horseman will benefit greatly from becoming a corpse, but tend to have garbage sigils to give. This will be the only overpowered card gaining system, because it does two overpowered things while usually doing nothing negative.
But to those who spent 8 hours reading this mess may ask, "why? why did you make so many permanent and horrible consequences to complicated things you might forget about in gameplay?" Grimora has always been about death and accepting horrible things. By making this the most unforgiving act, a first-time player is more than likely to make at least one devastatingly huge missplay. Many players may even die enough to make all their starting cards into corpses. By doing this, they are literally forced to... kill themselves, maybe multiple times, within the game, to obtain enough power to win. This act is also designed to be the most frustrating and difficult (though at high reward to those who can beat it), because it's the darkest part of the game. While still beatable by all players, it requires a difficult decision to do so if you fall low enough- the emotional decision of killing off yourself (though some personalities have no problem with that if it's a free win)
Holy hell, did you get enough sleep dude?
Amazing concepts though..
very cool concepts, i feel like it could be neat for the stories of each card to matter in some way. like, provide all the elements necessary to make them follow the hero's journey, be weakened, then become stronger to overcome the obstacle, or inevitably die.
maybe cards should keep their health between games, but be able to be healed? maybe interactions between cards that affect the game?
This is probably the longest comment I've ever read on RUclips, yet your concepts looks so cool. Way better than the mod we got.
@@Otherface things happen at 3 am
An accepting feeling of having been wrong. Isn't that the theme?
I hope they do a dlc or mod for Grimora at some point like they did for Kaycees mod giving you unlimited Leshy. The gameplay in Grimora's last fight is fun and the visuals are amazing.
stan grimora like god forbid women do anything 🙄
*YARRRRRRRRRR*
deletes skull
Oh..
Its the temple of the dead but not chiptune. Somehow is even more dreadful than before
"MARAVILLOSO"
grimora's mod goes hard ‼
I really hope a dlc comes out like kaycees mod but for the other 3 scrybes. Mostly Grimora though.
На самом деле, эта музыка похожа на ту, которую обычно можно услышать в каких-то хоррор фильмах или играх. Мне нравится, думаю, Гриморе как никому другому подходит эта атмосфера.
Кстати, Гримора по сути самая благоразумная из всех переписчиков, это её решение в конце, уничтожить игру вместе со старыми данными... Мне кажется, оно ей самой далось не так легко, но она понимала, что так будет лучше всем. Она не хотела этого, понимала, что другие её не поймут, но она знала, что нет другого варианта обезопасить мир от этих чудовищных знаний, и вместе с тем прекратить страдания всех персонажей в игре.
Жаль только, что из-за глупости Люка Картера ничего из этого не вышло. Надеюсь, мне не одной кажется, что он полный кретин.
I really wanted more time with Grimora and Magnificus. Felt like a waste to have unique playboards only used for a fraction of the games time. Wish we had the option of choosing the themes.
This one sounds like Metroid 2 OST, somewhere in the depths of SR388
The very first notes of the song sound like the starting notes to Victors solo from the movie the corpse bride... and Grimora is the scripe of death and uses skeletons..... coincidence or.... ☠️🦴👰♀
Would fit in an RE game.
Only like the first 20s - Tomba 2 Water Temple, anyone?
Eh. She tried.
Maybe it wasn't the right thing to do. But it was maybe the best thing that could've been done. If it wasn't for the old underscore data being embedded so deep inside the floppy
I guess even scribes can be wrong
ground branch
if only mee maw had her own act
Two words about this section: Blue Balls
Sound like Professor Layton 2
Sounds a lot like Six Pint Inn.
yargh?
*pirate music stops*
you know what's strange? We hear the same familiar melody from deathcard cabin in both the four scrybes and botopia. so why not here in grimora's crypt? i mean, this may just be because jonah senzel forgot that the melody existed, but this is inscryption. so what does it mean? (and no im not counting final duel as when magnificus is in control we only get to have a battle, not explore any sort of map)
The theme from deathcard cabin represents Leshy's area, it plays in botopia when you visit the top right area because that's supposed to be Leshy's area.
It's not in "the four scrybes"
Why would it be here if it has nothing to do with Leshy?
@@Infamous_Val_05 my brother. i advise u to listen to "the four scrybes" for a bit bc idk if u havent reached the bit it is there at or if u just dont hear it.
@@fiendishstrawberryva well, if it is it makes sense, because the track is called "the four Scrybes", and Leshy is a Scrybe.
I still fail to see how Leshy's theme is supposed to play here according to you though...
Wtf is this 8d audio??
I heard this and immediately thought of this: ruclips.net/video/w50VgYe5qDk/видео.html
I can't be the only one.
It makes me think of the theme of the Fool's Idol from the original Demon's Souls